![]() ![]() Ultimately, she was reunited with her parents in America where she found work creating a comic book series with women as the central protagonists. ![]() At one point, she was classified as an enemy alien. Fed up with her sponsors, Lily left the house, moved to the countryside and became a nanny. Instead of assistance, she was offered more tea. ![]() ![]() She tried hard to find sponsors for her parents so they, too, could escape Austria. Her misery was exacerbated by the fact that she could barely speak English at the time. Treated with disdain by her friend's mother, she was expected to do the work of a domestic servant and was denied sufficient food. Instead, it shows us how Lily's life changed in England. Lily Renee, Escape Artist does not revisit these subjects. We know about the concentration camps, the death camps and the hardships of the Holocaust. In 1939, Lily's escape from Austria on the Kindertransport likely saved her life. After Kristallnacht, Lily's parents asked the family of Lily's pen pal, Molly, to sponsor their daughter to move to England. With her father at the helm of the Holland America Steamship Company, money was clearly not an issue-until the Nazis drove their tanks into town. In this graphic biography, Robbins, Timmons, and Oh bring her vividly to life, describing her budding talent as an artist and her trips to the ballet and opera. Lily Renée Wilhelm was fourteen in 1938, a Jewish girl from a privileged Vienna home whose world was about to be turned upside down by the war. ![]()
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